Colorado Spirit Quest #369 Thompson Park Cementary Traditional Cache

COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST

Thompson Park Cemetery

• The cemetery is located near Cherry Creek.
• Thompson Park cemetery was established adjacent to the Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church at Dix, a siding on the Rio Grande Southern Railroad. The congregation disbanded in 1939 to merge with St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Durango. The church building was moved as a single piece to Mancos, where it was put to secular use. Today it houses the Head Start program.
  
• There are 10-12 graves.
• There is a monument between the road and the cemetery that

  explains the history of the cemetery.